Blackmailing an opponent, the step that Henry Fonda rejects in The Best Man, doesn't bother Jack Stanton in Primary Colors.

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While many argue that even his more serious works lack real depth -- "He tends to see the world in primary colors rather than light and shade, " says Brooks, "Which is why his recent, darker movies don't quite come off, " -- even Spielberg's fiercest critics acknowledge his enormous, era-defining contribution to the cinematic art.

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Well, what can you do but cry when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery?

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Literary sleuth and Vassar literature professor Don Foster, who famously exposed Joe Klein as the author of the book Primary Colors, sides with the family of Hudson Valley gentleman poet Henry Livingston Jr. in arguing that Livingston is the Christmas poem's true author.

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Also pleasing is the anecdote of a woman inspecting an auction catalogue in a snootily decorated room, disrupted by a glimpse of city street, sporting fortuitous patches of primary colors, outside the window.

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